VOA标准英语2010年-Deep-Fried Fun Flourishes at State Fai

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The North Carolina State Fair is under way in the capital city of Raleigh. If you were there, you'd see lots of exhibits about good nutrition, and could sample wholesome¹ farm dishes made from healthful recipes.

But most of the other fair-goers would be pigging out across the way at the concession² stands - a heaven on earth for gluttons³.

 
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Deep-fried fatty foods are part of the fair-going experience.
We're not just talking greasy⁴ French fries, sugary cotton candy, and caramel-dipped apples. These folks make fattening⁵ items even more artery-clogging by deep-frying them in lard or oil.

Here are just some of the foods offered for sale at the North Carolina State Fair:

Spicy⁶, deep-fried turkey wings, deep-fried chocolate pie, deep-fried pumpkin⁷ pie, and deep-fried chocolate-chip cookies. Somewhere on the grounds, you'll probably also find the old state-fair staple⁸ - deep-fried ice cream, or maybe deep-fried pickles⁹.

 
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Somewhere, buried beneath the glop are the Fritos in this Frito Pie.
Or you can try chocolate-covered Twinkie logs. Twinkies are spongy cakes shaped like gold ingots, filled with a sugary cream-like substance. No dairy products in them! Add the chocolate covering, and call your dentist in the morning.

Consider deep-fried bacon-and-cheese mashed¹⁰ potato bites. Or honey buns: rolled dough¹¹ spread with sugar, nuts and honey, and then - you guessed it - deep-fried.

Before washing those down with some sweet lemonade, make room for a fried Frito pie. There are already about 500 calories in a small bag of these salty corn chips. At the fair, they crunch¹² 'em up into a pie crust, fill it with who-knows-what, and, of course, fry it in the ever-present vat¹³ of oil.

 
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Take your classic American junk food - Twinkies - cover them with chocolate, and you have . . . a gut-buster for the ages.
VOA's agriculture reporter, Steve Baragona, normally writes about, eats, and even grows healthful foods. But he's a sucker for fried food from the fair.

His eyes lit up when he heard about this year's special in North Carolina: Krispy Kreme burgers. Krispy Kremes are airy doughnuts, deep-fried and doused¹⁴ with sugary glaze¹⁵. Put one on each side of a fried burger, and you've got a cardiology classic.

I can't quite picture the taste of those two together, Steve said. But dip 'em in batter¹⁶ and deep fry 'em, and you have something there!